4 responses to “Singing Plants: communication”

This reminds me of the work of Cleve Baxter, a polygraph expert, who in the 60’s thought of hooking a plant to a polygraph machine and discovered the plant was reacting to his intentions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYksxtB0w8U

His experiments led him to believe that plants, bacteria, cells, and eggs, are all conscious and connected.

His experiments on yogurt bacteria for instance make me wonder: knowing that bacteria in our GI tract (gut microflora) outnumber the actual human cells by 10 to 1, could all these microbes in our bodies form a conscious collective together with our cells, a fine-tuned ecosystem, just like plants, minerals and animal life on Earth form a conscious collective being?

There are wise people who believe that consciousness does indeed exist in plant life in a form that we might perhaps best understand as a kind of dream state. Eons pass, life awakens in matter and fitfully proceeds to its ultimate destination. I’m reminded of the last words of Alex, the famous well-versed parrot: “Good night, see you tomorrow, I love you.”